Ontario Coroner’s Office

• Ontario’s coroner opens inquest into 2020 shooting death of Hamilton man

  Ontario's West Region coroner will investigate the death of a 42-year-old man who was fatally shot four years ago as police responded to a "domestic incident" in the city centre.

  Crime

  Jun 19
  
• Ontario opioid death rate drops in 2022, coroner’s data shows

  Preliminary data from the coroner's office shows 1,278 people have died from opioid toxicity in the first six months of this year.

  Canada

  Nov 24, 2022
  
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• Family of teen who died at Brantford school for the blind marks 3rd anniversary of his death

  The family of a teen who died at a school for the blind in Brantford in February 2018 is urging the province to get a coroner's inquest into his death underway as soon as possible.

  Feb 9, 2021
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• Inquest into death of disabled teen an ‘absolute no-brainer’: family’s lawyer

  The lawyer for the family of Samuel Brown says they will settle for nothing less than a coroner's inquest into the teen's death in 2018.

  Sep 26, 2019
• Date set for Ontario coroner’s inquest into death of Warkworth Institution inmate

  Jeffrey Bruce Woodman died at the prison on Sept. 4, 2017, while serving a six-year sentence.

  Canada

  Sep 26, 2019
• Hamilton police hand over latest case of Barton Street jail death to coroner’s office

  The Ontario coroner has taken over investigation into the sudden death of a 34-year-old man at Barton Street jail.

  Mar 22, 2019
• OPP investigating fire at Whitestone home after body recovered

  According to West Parry Sound OPP, on Tuesday, just before 5 p.m., officers received a report of a fatal fire at a residence in Whitestone.

  Crime

  Jan 23, 2019
• Family seeking answers after Toronto musician was buried in the wrong grave

  Scott Cushnie's friends and family were shocked to learn he had been misidentified by another family, and was buried in the wrong grave. After hearing the Ontario coroner's office made a mistake, his sister is looking for answers to how this could have happened.

  Canada

  Oct 31, 2018
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• Dying alone: Hundreds of bodies are going unclaimed in Ontario and Quebec

  What if you died, and no one came to take your body? It’s happening more often in Canada’s most populous provinces.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2017